2025 Food Shortage Predictions By Country. Original Wavelength Who Will Soon Go Hungry? Reasons for the food shortage in the world. WFP's flagship 2025 Global Outlook, launched today, shows that 343 million people across 74 countries are acutely food insecure, a 10 per cent increase from last year and just shy of the record. In response to the global hunger crisis, World Vision has been conducting an annual food price survey since 2021, monitoring both year-on-year fluctuations in food prices, as well as comparing the cost of a standard food basket in terms of hours worked between countries.This report is the fourth iteration of our annual survey and includes data from almost 80 countries where World Vision works.
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Information from the latest month between November 2024 and February 2025 for which food price inflation data are available shows that inflation higher than 5% is experienced in 78.9% of low. People in Haiti and the sub-Saharan African countries of Mali, Sudan, and South Sudan were also identified as being most at risk for extreme hunger, with the region called "ground zero" for the humanitarian crisis
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Acute hunger is on the rise again, affecting 343 million people in 74 countries where the World Food Programme (WFP) works and data is available. Acute hunger is on the rise again, affecting 343 million people in 74 countries where the World Food Programme (WFP) works and data is available. Up to 1.9 million people are estimated to be on the brink of famine, primarily in Gaza and Sudan - where famine was confirmed in one location in July - but also pockets of the populations in South.
Ukraine war The countries most at risk of wheat shortages World Economic Forum. In response to the global hunger crisis, World Vision has been conducting an annual food price survey since 2021, monitoring both year-on-year fluctuations in food prices, as well as comparing the cost of a standard food basket in terms of hours worked between countries.This report is the fourth iteration of our annual survey and includes data from almost 80 countries where World Vision works. Information from the latest month between November 2024 and February 2025 for which food price inflation data are available shows that inflation higher than 5% is experienced in 78.9% of low.
What It Will Take to Avoid a Global Food Shortage. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is projected to worsen across 16 hunger hotspots during the outlook period from November 2024 to May 2025, including a total of 14 countries and 2 regional clusters which comprise 8 countries. The report spotlights the regional fallout from the crisis in Gaza which has seen Lebanon engulfed in conflict and warns that the La Niña weather pattern could impact climates through March 2025, threatening fragile food systems in.